September 6, 2017, 10:46 am
Originally Posted by: SSMSBoost ![Go to Quoted Post]( "Go to Quoted Post") Concerning licensing policy: to assure further development of the add-in we simply need more Pro customers, and we also believe that someone, who uses the add-in on the daily basis for his professional activities can invest in Pro license.
That is certainly understandable but I guess my issue with it (since the policy isn't going to change) is that this isn't really explained anywhere. For such a big change, I would have expected at least a post in the News section detailing the change and the reasoning. Or that there wasn't a post in the forum for the beta users that this change will occur once it gets out of beta/RC. |
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September 6, 2017, 11:36 pm
Hello! Love your product, been using it for years!
I see in most recent 3.1 release notes that you plan on extending the "Query post execution actions" functionality ... adding the possibility to send e-mail on query completion or execute another action.
This is useful when we start long-running queries and switch to another script or application (or just leave my computer :) ). Currently we can be notified by popup or system tray message (which I never see).
A couple ideas here ...
- support or slack and Twilio (SMS message) would be awesome!
- My top choice would be Twilio. Currently if I'm executing a long-running manual script, such as creating a database, restoring, re-indexing, a scheduled SQL Agent job I need to be aware of, etc - I just add a line to the script to execute a proc we wrote "t_TwilioSms" (see definition below). It would be nice to have SSMSBoost store my Twilio credentials and easily toggle notification on or off on the menu bar. A custom message pattern would be nice.
- ultimately, executing a command line application would be the most flexible as you could then run a PowerShell script or I could run cURL to call Twilio or any other application as long as you include command line parameters.
exec t_TwilioSms @Phone='5555551212', @Message='My long job is done!'
GO
ALTER procedure [dbo].[t_TwilioSms] @Phone varchar(255), @Message varchar(1000) as
begin
declare @uri varchar(8000)
set @uri = 'https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/[TWILIO_ACCOUNT]/SMS/Messages'
declare @content nvarchar(max)
set @content = dbo.clr_AddParameter(null, 'From', 'TWILIO_PHONE')
set @content = dbo.clr_AddParameter(@content, 'To', @Phone)
set @content = dbo.clr_AddParameter(@content, 'Body', @Message)
declare @response nvarchar(max), @returnCode int
exec @returnCode = dbo.clr_WebPost @uri, @content, @response out, @userName = 'TWILIO_ACCOUNT', @password = 'TWILIO_PASSWORD'
if @returnCode = 0
print 'Success: ' + @response
else
print 'Error: ' + @response
end
GO
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September 7, 2017, 2:20 am
Originally Posted by: Scitrek ![Go to Quoted Post]( "Go to Quoted Post") Originally Posted by: SSMSBoost ![Go to Quoted Post]( "Go to Quoted Post") Originally Posted by: lezmaka ![Go to Quoted Post]( "Go to Quoted Post") That is certainly understandable but I guess my issue with it (since the policy isn't going to change) is that this isn't really explained anywhere. For such a big change, I would have expected at least a post in the News section detailing the change and the reasoning. Or that there wasn't a post in the forum for the beta users that this change will occur once it gets out of beta/RC.
This is mentioned in the news post about the news release: "...additionally, we are changing our licensing policy concerning Free Community Edition. You can check Version comparison page for more information."
Sorry to keep this going, but I feel there's a misunderstanding. No one is saying the change is not obvious now. What I personally am disappointed about is the fact that this change in licensing was not (as far as I remember) clearly communicated before the whole beta testing process took place. I participated in this process, using an unstable version, reporting bugs and working with your developer Andrei, testing in multiple Azure environments and SSMS versions. All of that was under the previous gentlemen's agreement that in exchange for using the unstable version and reporting bugs, we would be able to use a stable version once release (and continue participating in the testing program).
I work in software myself, and I obviously understand the need to sell a product and fund development, but I would have expected, at the very least, that either the change in licensing was made very, very clear from the beginning, or that the people who actively participated in the testing would receive a free license as a thank you. Give the former never happened, I am confident you recognise the contribution that some users brought to the development of this product (a commercial one) and offer them a free license for their good faith efforts.
This is a great product and we all want it to thrive and succeed, so I hope this episode won't be the fly in the ointment that spoils it.
Thank you
Sure ! We actually provide free licenses for active users. Please send us an e-mail to support@ to identify yourself and you will get one :) |
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September 7, 2017, 7:06 am
| Ok, thank you for reporting this. I could reproduce the issue. Will be fixed. |
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September 8, 2017, 5:41 am
A minor bug in formatting.
I have created a custom format for SQL statements. My settings in Settings\Formatting are <spaces> for everything.
This works fine everywhere except for one place. In the following SQL statement:
SELECT *
FROM sys.tables
WHERE object_id = 162099618
AND type_desc = 'USER_TABLE'
before the "AND" in the "WHERE" part, SSMSBoost adds a tab instead of spaces.
Tried with the latest version - 3.1.6458 |
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September 8, 2017, 12:44 pm
The explanation is not $$, The right word is "Resources".
The project got bigger:
-we support 6 different SSMS versions already - each version has own part of Source Code
-add-in is packed with variety of features that we continue to add
-we have more and more support questions or just questions from our users, that need to be answered.
To process all of this you need time = Resources.
I am sure that many of SSMSBoost users would NOT like to see this project fading or dying because of lack of our attention. (There are many abandoned projects on the web, that were good some days..)
So, to assure continuous development and evolution we decided to appeal to our Pro users. Change of licensing is targeted to motivate Professionals to pay for the tool, they are using daily.
If you look out for other tools (or toolkits with comparable functions), you will see, that our price considerably lower. We hope that price of 2 dinners should be reasonable for the tool that you use on daily basis for your work.
Some people even write, that they cannot live without SSMBoost and I understand them, because this concerns me too: working in plain SSMS is like using notepad, instead of Notepad++ :)
Enthusiasts can still use free edition, as far as it has still many useful functions, and even after every release full functionality is unlocked for next 30 days.
We also offer free licenses for MVPs and active contributors: those who communicate with us and provide extensive feedback or help us complicated bugs.
If someone thinks his abilities can help us in exchange for free license - you are welcome to contact us via support@.
P.S. To keep forum threads focused on their main subject, I will delete a couple comments about licensing from non-relevant threads. If there is something to discuss about licensing model - we can do this in this topic. |
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September 8, 2017, 12:53 pm
I think that we will start with the command-line execution support and will maybe add here a separate thread for user-created samples.
If someone already has samples - you are welcome to post them here.
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September 10, 2017, 7:30 pm
That sounds like a perfect plan - I can add samples for both when you get that working.
- Jeremy |
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September 12, 2017, 8:39 am
| You must eat out in some very expensive restaurants :) |
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September 12, 2017, 9:13 am
| As far as we released v3.1 this beta 3.0 thread is now closed. Post your reports proposals in general Beta forum. |
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September 14, 2017, 3:47 am
Well, there is a pretty simple universal function implemented, that asks for parameter name. If you open SSMSBoost Settings->Grid Scripting Templates-> (Template Name) and open Scripting Tab for {Rows}
you will see following template:
Code:INSERT INTO [<Destination tablename, sysname, Enter table name here>]({ColumnNames})
VALUES({Values})
You see, that "Destination tablename" parameter is placed between brackets. You can modify template and remove the brackets:
Code:INSERT INTO <Destination tablename, sysname, Enter table name here>({ColumnNames})
VALUES({Values})
Now you will be responsible for placing brackets, if needed.
You can even improve it and add "Schema" parameter, that will be asked as well:
Code:INSERT INTO [<Schema name, sysname, Enter schema name here>].[<Destination tablename, sysname, Enter table name here>]({ColumnNames})
VALUES({Values})
You have the control. |
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September 14, 2017, 11:42 am
| Your settings will not be deleted during uninstall. New version will re-use them |
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September 19, 2017, 5:29 am
hi there,
this is not meant as a criticism but unfortunately, there's no way that i can convince my company to pay €180 for a licence for each developer.
i do appreciate the massive amount of work that you guys have done and the great tool that you've produced though. |
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September 19, 2017, 10:48 am
Hi, what about a "Personal" License?
My company is not going to pay USD150 per user, but I think I personally could pay an intermediate price for full features, and you are going to sell more licenses.
I love SSMSBoost, but I really think 150 is too high, specially for non-US residents like me. |
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September 19, 2017, 7:22 pm
Originally Posted by: skeepa ![Go to Quoted Post]( "Go to Quoted Post") Hi, what about a "Personal" License?
My company is not going to pay USD150 per user, but I think I personally could pay an intermediate price for full features, and you are going to sell more licenses.
I love SSMSBoost, but I really think 150 is too high, specially for non-US residents like me.
We are thinking about this different options, but we need some more time and statistics to crystallize the idea. Thank you for your proposal !
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September 20, 2017, 6:18 am
I'm having the same issue (SSMS Boost v3.1.6458, SSMS "17.2" (14.0.17177.0 in SSMS > Help > About), Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate 64 bit)
My table definitely has a primary key, and I can open it for editing by right-clicking, Edit Top 200 Rows in the SSMS Object Explorer.
The exact error message from SSMS Boost is: "Unable to open specified object for editing it's data. Sorry, no magic. Only objects that can be opened for rows modification from Object Exolorer using the "Edit top N rows" can be opened by SSMSBoost EDIT command from SQL Editor."
BTW - thank you for an outstanding product - if it was less expensive, I would not hesitate to buy a license. |
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September 20, 2017, 7:55 pm
| Thank you for the feedback, Dave ! |
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September 22, 2017, 10:55 am
ssmsboost.com suspects your message is spam and rejected it.
I am trying to buy 20 Licenses, I need to discuss purchase order but cannot get through to you on either of the posted email address. |
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September 22, 2017, 8:08 pm
| I have checked spam filter settings and have made it less strict.. |
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September 26, 2017, 11:57 am
I've just started using the search function and it's great.
Couple of things:
(1) when the results are displayed could they be sorted alphabetically by Object name? I know you can sort by clicking the column heading but it would be great if it was pre-sorted
(2) I've just been renaming some stored procedures and there doesn't seem to be an obvious way of refreshing the search results to take of the changed object names.
Thanks
David
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